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there's one shooting in my city where the gun was obtained legally. most of the crimes are because people who are not qualified to get guns, got guns. so to improve the system, background checks, and the one more mental health point i want to make, there are 19 states almost where there's less than a hundred people they've registered in the system as mentally uncapable because states aren't even turning over this information. if wooy shared information, we could do a much better job as a country. >> you lost your faurthd in the sikh temple shooting. i don't mean to be disrespectful to those who don't hold my view. what is your reaction, you're a gun orn, i believe. >> i have a gun. i was in the army, rotc. worked with an m-16. saw everything. and those guns aren't meant for protection. they're meant for anileation. to deter somebody, you could deter somebody with a knife, like my father did. he wrestled this guy with a knife, a butter knife, and the guy left the building. to have gun after gun, it's becoming a black and white issue, people want to tak
there's one shooting in my city where the gun was obtained legally. most of the crimes are because people who are not qualified to get guns, got guns. so to improve the system, background checks, and the one more mental health point i want to make, there are 19 states almost where there's less than a hundred people they've registered in the system as mentally uncapable because states aren't even turning over this information. if wooy shared information, we could do a much better job as a...
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but what has created a problem in the united states, is to say in cities and schools, those are areas where we're not going to allow them to defend themselves? >> what is the murder rate in great britain for the last three years? >> it's under 3 for 100,000. >> just give me a number. >> it's actually .3 per 100,000. about a tenth of what it is in your vaunted english bucolic country, sir. the fact of the matter with guns comes safety. if the guns are in the hands of the good guys. when you say the good guys can't have guns, the bad guys have a monopoly and horrible things sufficient as shootings at schools take place. >> the ar-15 as we've seen in the last three shootings, aur a aurora, the shopping mall in oregon and now sandy hook, the preferred weapon for young men who want to transfer hundreds of bullets of rapid fire if you have the right magazines. the president has stated he wants to ban weapons like this. what is your view? >> i think we need to ban gun control laws from people who need to protect themselves. the problem is not going to go away if we ban this or that gun. we'v
but what has created a problem in the united states, is to say in cities and schools, those are areas where we're not going to allow them to defend themselves? >> what is the murder rate in great britain for the last three years? >> it's under 3 for 100,000. >> just give me a number. >> it's actually .3 per 100,000. about a tenth of what it is in your vaunted english bucolic country, sir. the fact of the matter with guns comes safety. if the guns are in the hands of the...
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protocols in our city. you know, our children are -- our laboratories may not be in every community, but our discoveries are. everything we're doing is being sent out worldwide, all of our discoveries. what distinguishes st. jude from all the other hospitals, all the other children's hospitals is that we're a research center and a treatment center. so every child has a scientist and a doctor work on their case. and every child is getting a customized treatment. that's why we've been able to raise these survival rates from all, the most common form of cancer in children is leukemia. 4% when my dad opened the hospital to 94% today. but what's exciting is working on that 6%, you know, to find the customized treatment that's going to bring every single one of those kids. >> it's amazing the break throughs that comes with all these treatments. i know somebody involved with bone cancers in los angeles, actually, who said just recently they had a new break through which meant that women who had to have a leg amput
protocols in our city. you know, our children are -- our laboratories may not be in every community, but our discoveries are. everything we're doing is being sent out worldwide, all of our discoveries. what distinguishes st. jude from all the other hospitals, all the other children's hospitals is that we're a research center and a treatment center. so every child has a scientist and a doctor work on their case. and every child is getting a customized treatment. that's why we've been able to...
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and it doesn't belong on the streets of our city. and it doesn't belong in a place where a 20-year-old like this particular 20-year-old could get ahold of it and go in and do what he did. and this makes me very angry. >> what do you say to those who say i have my second amendment rights. i'm entitled to bear arms. you are not entitled to take away that right by removing these kind of weapons from the streets and from the stores. >> there is no second amendment right to bear every type of weapon that you know of. these are a certain class of weapons. they are designed to kill large numbers of people in close combat. i don't believe the second amendment covers them. the second amendment was written a long time before these -- this class of weapons was founded, merchandised, and spread all over our country. where they fall into the hands of juveniles, grievance killers, people who go into our malls, our theaters, our stores, our businesses, and now our schools and just kill people for no good reason. it's got to stop. >> tell me about t
and it doesn't belong on the streets of our city. and it doesn't belong in a place where a 20-year-old like this particular 20-year-old could get ahold of it and go in and do what he did. and this makes me very angry. >> what do you say to those who say i have my second amendment rights. i'm entitled to bear arms. you are not entitled to take away that right by removing these kind of weapons from the streets and from the stores. >> there is no second amendment right to bear every...
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that shouldn't be on the streets of our city. and now these children, this is the straw that breaks the camel's back. people have to respond. they have to understand that the rights of the many to remain safe are more important than any right you may think you have to have a military-style assault weapon. >> senator feinstein, i applaud what you're doing and i wish you every success. >> thank you. thank you, piers, i appreciate it. >>> my next guest is a gun rights advocate. he says the bushmaster semiautomatic rifle, the type of rifle adam lanza used to kill 20 children and six more adults says, quote is a blast to shoot with. he is the president of the virginia citizens defense league. i want to read what you said on sunday to the "washington post." you said i could ask you when asked about the use of these type of weapons why should anyone want a ferrari? bushmasters are absolutely a blast to shoot with. they're fast. they're accurate. guns are fun. some of them are much more and others are much more boxy. are you proud of wha
that shouldn't be on the streets of our city. and now these children, this is the straw that breaks the camel's back. people have to respond. they have to understand that the rights of the many to remain safe are more important than any right you may think you have to have a military-style assault weapon. >> senator feinstein, i applaud what you're doing and i wish you every success. >> thank you. thank you, piers, i appreciate it. >>> my next guest is a gun rights...
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if you look at the vast number of murders committed. look at the city of chicago. the city of chicago. >> well, the biggest problem here i think in the country is that we don't actually talk to each other like we do now, and everyone is saying, no. we didn't do this. can't do this. well, we don't know what we can do until we try it and we don't know if it's going to change anything if we change our gun rules until we wlook at it and change it and if it doesn't, go back at it and do something else. we all know that something needs to be done so that 20 children don't get mowed down and hunted down like al qaeda or the taliban by assault weapons. i'm don lemon. thanks for watching. have a great night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
if you look at the vast number of murders committed. look at the city of chicago. the city of chicago. >> well, the biggest problem here i think in the country is that we don't actually talk to each other like we do now, and everyone is saying, no. we didn't do this. can't do this. well, we don't know what we can do until we try it and we don't know if it's going to change anything if we change our gun rules until we wlook at it and change it and if it doesn't, go back at it and do...
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at the end of that year, she moved to birmingham, alabama, to work at an inner city african-american church. i moved to nagasaki, japan, to teach english. our entire courtship, we were apart. it was by letters. so when we actually got married, it was like we knew we were in love with each other and we felt god put us together. but it was like, and who are you? and my wife and i are the exact opposite in every detail of our dna except our commitment to each other and the lord. the thing that made us last, we said divorce is not an option for us. we're going to make this thing work if it kills us. and there were times it nearly did. at one point, i ended up in the hospital from depression over our marriage problems. kay thought she was having a nervous breakdown. and we went to a counselor. at that time, i was working at a college and i was making $800 a month and my counseling bill was $100 a week. we wracked up a $1,500 counseling bill. was it worth it? are you kidding me? she's my best friend. i often thought i should do a commercial called mastercard -- priceless. saved my marriage
at the end of that year, she moved to birmingham, alabama, to work at an inner city african-american church. i moved to nagasaki, japan, to teach english. our entire courtship, we were apart. it was by letters. so when we actually got married, it was like we knew we were in love with each other and we felt god put us together. but it was like, and who are you? and my wife and i are the exact opposite in every detail of our dna except our commitment to each other and the lord. the thing that...
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>> there are vigils scheduled throughout the weekend. in addition that, connecticut itself is having a simultaneous vigil that they are trying to organize right now where each town and village and city will take a moment out and spend time reflecting and maybe starting once we get through this initial shock and reflecting a little bit about our public policy positions in terms of things like gun control and how we deal with folks who are disabled. once we understand this horrific tragedy that occurred. that conversation will be started over the next couple of weeks. >> thank you very much indeed for joining me. >> thank you, piers. >> we can't imagine what it was like in the school. sofia was there and just 8 years old. she joins me with her brother, brend a. thank you both for joining me. if i may start with you, brenda. this is every mother's nightmare. when was the first you heard about this and how did you hear? >> i received a call from the school system from the superintendent saying that there was a shooting in newtown, but didn't
>> there are vigils scheduled throughout the weekend. in addition that, connecticut itself is having a simultaneous vigil that they are trying to organize right now where each town and village and city will take a moment out and spend time reflecting and maybe starting once we get through this initial shock and reflecting a little bit about our public policy positions in terms of things like gun control and how we deal with folks who are disabled. once we understand this horrific tragedy...
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but these kinds of shootings don't happen in big cities. they happen usually in small towns or suburbs. >> and is there a common thread in the mental health history of the boys involved in these? >> there is almost always a mental health condition. the sad thing is it's often unrecognized and untreated. so we don't know if that will be true in this case. but in most of the cases we looked at, there was after-the-fact evidence of mental disorders but no treatment. or had ever been diagnosed that's disturbing because we like to think we can recognize the symptoms. but particularly when the shooters are younger than this one, the ones we looked at were 13, 12, the signs of distinguished mental illness that are going to be so vivid if they survive into their 20s are not so easy to discern when they're 13. so sadly there is a -- there's evidence after the fact often that comes up in forensic examinations, but not the kind of evidence that leads to the treatment that they so desperately need. >> it's also interesting in the book title, you talk a
but these kinds of shootings don't happen in big cities. they happen usually in small towns or suburbs. >> and is there a common thread in the mental health history of the boys involved in these? >> there is almost always a mental health condition. the sad thing is it's often unrecognized and untreated. so we don't know if that will be true in this case. but in most of the cases we looked at, there was after-the-fact evidence of mental disorders but no treatment. or had ever been...
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the city has some of the toughest laws on the books. but the chicago police department says 87% of the homicides this year are a result of gun violence. so let's talk. joining me tonight for this conversation, t.o. hardiman. and harold pollock joins us as well. welcome, gentlemen. what is the problem? is it guns, gang, both? what is it? >> i think that everything you mentioned is a problem. but i think that the immediate problem is getting a better handle on illegal guns. many of the murders that take place involve 18-year-old kids dealing with each other, having normal 18-year-old conflicts. and then you introduce a gun to that. and someone ends up dead. i think that helping kids deal with those conflicts more productively but also doing everything we can to deal with those illegal guns is critical to bringing the homicide rate down. >> this is exactly what cease-fire deals with, especially the gang issue. and you know from experience, you know this well. before i talk to you, do you remember back in 2009 in the summer, this was right
the city has some of the toughest laws on the books. but the chicago police department says 87% of the homicides this year are a result of gun violence. so let's talk. joining me tonight for this conversation, t.o. hardiman. and harold pollock joins us as well. welcome, gentlemen. what is the problem? is it guns, gang, both? what is it? >> i think that everything you mentioned is a problem. but i think that the immediate problem is getting a better handle on illegal guns. many of the...
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. >> looking live at new york city, home of the united nations, world leaders from 193 countries are gathering for the annual meeting of the general assembly. president mahmoud ahmadinejad will address the assembly on wednesday. he had some blistering words today. >> you have been condemned very vociferously in america for a comment you have said to have made, that you wanted israel to be wiped off the map, wiped off the face of the earth. there have been many different interpretations what you said. you have disputed the meaning that was then translated from the original farsi. let me give you the opportunity to say exactly what you did say and to say exactly what you did mean. >> translator: we have been condemned in the united states for many things, for having deposed a dictator with the revolution, for having sought freedom and free elections, for not allowing our oil and national treasure to leave our country freely and for having stood up to very dangerous terrorists in the region, for having stood up against saddam hussein, who enjoyed the backing of many we stood up against
. >> looking live at new york city, home of the united nations, world leaders from 193 countries are gathering for the annual meeting of the general assembly. president mahmoud ahmadinejad will address the assembly on wednesday. he had some blistering words today. >> you have been condemned very vociferously in america for a comment you have said to have made, that you wanted israel to be wiped off the map, wiped off the face of the earth. there have been many different...
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